1).
„Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, strolled confidently in dark sunglasses and a black coat Friday through a rally of regime loyalists in central Tehran. It was his first public appearance in a war in which he was a known target.

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/2035774761603579970

2).
– »Brave people. Brave officials. Brave leaders. This combination cannot be defeated« – he wrote later on X.

3).
Four days later, he was dead. Early Tuesday morning, Israel’s intelligence services found Larijani gathered with other officials at a hideout on the outskirts of Tehran and killed him with a missile strike.

A troubling interaction with a so-called protector of the survivor community (meaning MK-Ultra survivors) leads me to share this thread about the importance of independent thinking. It is based on Q. (🧵) /1

As new truths come to light, new people will try to assert authority by claiming superior knowledge.

To avoid becoming "sheep" all over again, individuals must rely on their own discernment.

The goal is to avoid trading one set of "masters" for another.

/2

True freedom is found in your own ability to verify facts, not in following a new "leader" who claims to have the “inside track.”

/3

🟥 UPDATE NUMBER TWO | 22 MARCH 2026
🔳 Sources: journalists on the ground

🟥 GAZA

🔳 Powerful explosions were heard across Gaza City as israeli strikes intensified into the evening

▪️A residential apartment near Taj Mall on Yarmouk Street was directly targeted causing injuries including children and significant structural damage

▪️Medical sources confirmed at least 3 injuries transferred to Al Shifa Medical Complex as fire spread inside the apartment following the strike

🔳 The continued targeting of residential buildings marks a clear escalation and breach of the ceasefire with civilians once again at the centre of the bombardment

▪️Footage from the scene shows civilians being carried from the building as smoke and flames filled the area

🔳 Earlier in Al Nuseirat camp israeli forces carried out a direct strike on a police vehicle while it was on duty resulting in the killing of three officers

▪️Captain Ali Abu Rabee First Lieutenant Ahmed Hamdan and Assistant Ahmed Tabasha were killed in the attack alongside multiple injuries

▪️Scenes from the aftermath show the completely destroyed vehicle as well as funeral processions taking place across Gaza

🔳 Two Palestinians including a child were injured by israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia in the north while naval forces targeted fishing boats off Khan Younis

▪️The targeting of both civilians and livelihoods continues to deepen the humanitarian crisis across the Strip

🔳 Despite the bombardment scenes from displacement camps show a young girl teaching children using a makeshift board

▪️Even under fire Gaza continues to produce moments of resilience amid destruction

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@BlueATLGeorgia 🧵 1/
“SAVE Act” = #StealTheNextElectionAct

1️⃣ Voter purges every 30 days
— Uses DHS 📊 w error rate = 14% in TX
— Violates NVRA 90-day quiet period

2️⃣ Election workers face 5 years in jail + fines for registering noncitizens, so POC with legit 📄 could be denied out of caution

@BlueATLGeorgia @BrennanCenter @VoteRiders @DemocracyDocket @CampaignLegal @AriBerman 2/
3️⃣ 21.3 M voting-age citizens lack ready access to proof of citizenship

4️⃣ 3.8 M don’t have any form
— includes Black Americans born in Jim Crow South denied birth 🪪 bc parents turned away from 🏥 & who can’t receive it bc of lack of surviving relatives who’d sign affidavits

@BlueATLGeorgia @BrennanCenter @VoteRiders @DemocracyDocket @CampaignLegal @AriBerman 3/
5️⃣ “SAVE Act” = Geography Tax bc need to register/re-register IN-PERSON @ election office
— Native Americans live 100+ miles away
— Rural voters have to drive 4.5+ hrs
— Alaskan need to FLY

6️⃣ Need to re-register every time you
— Move
— Change party
— Get purged
— Change name

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "French Leftist Politician and Former EU Head for a time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, declared last evening that he will campaign for the French Presidency and win.

And he laid out his plans.
1)

Increase French socialist policies, including nationalization of more operations.

Oppose the USA.

Force Europe to institute a permanent total boycott against Israel in support of the Palestinians.

So, let me ask you some questions.

Should the US consider France an ally?
2)

If France boycotts Israel, will Israel be hurt by that?

If France moves to Marxism, I would boycott France."
3)

No Kings is planning 3000-events on 3/28 and its 1700-word press release makes zero mention of Iran, only opaque mentions of “illegal wars” (which ones?) I like many of the orgs involved but what’s the utility of these generic “anti-authoritarian” word salads at this moment

Given how much Trump’s attack on Iran is rapidly escalating and the stakes involved, it seems now would be a good time for No Kings and Indivisible to marshal their tremendous resources and hold an actual antiwar march with clear demands, not more partisan pep rallies.

Perhaps they could, at least, mention the country the US is poising to invade with ground troops by name idk. This may offend some of indivisible’s donors who also fund Zionist organizations but it would let them capture the profound antiwar sentiment rn, esp among democrats.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Cuba

In the 1950s, Cuba was a thriving nation, with a fast-growing economy—an economy that exported food, from beef to fruits and sugar. Yes, the regime that controlled Cuba then was bad—very bad.
1)

And yes, the Castro regime reforms did some good in areas of education and medical care, but in every other area of governmental rule, Cuba was a gross failure, living on subsidies from the Soviet Union and more recently from Venezuela.
2)

What Cuba under Castro did not seem to realize is that collectivism does not work so well, and when owners with experience in business and operations leave, replacing them with government bureaucrats does not work so well.
3)

I often talk about how important Shakespeare literacy is—a drum I will keep beating. Literacy in general is essential, and it’s dropping off a cliff in 2026. Also, you don’t want to publicly pay tribute to your dead sibling by inadvertently referencing sex.

I will be explain.

Following the assassination of JFK, RFK spoke these words ⬇️ on the stage at the 1964 DNC in tribute to his fallen brother, former President, and former boss as he was appointed AG during the Kennedy Administration.

The problem is…it’s wildly inappropriate as a tribute.

With zero context, it looks like this passage is saying “After he passes away, let his memory be reflected so beautifully in the stars that everyone will prefer nighttime starlight to daytime sunlight.

But that’s not what newlywed teen Juliet is saying. At all.

📝💡𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐃𝐑 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬💡📝

📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (16 March - 22 March 2026):

📺:

🧵1/

Octopus Energy Generation signed $60M carbon removal deal with Cultivo.
esgnews.com/octopus-energy…

Cocoon raised $15M to scale low-carbon cement.
carbonherald.com/cocoon-raises-…

Sustainable Aviation announced to invest $2.5M in Greenhouse Gas Removal credits.
carbonherald.com/the-sustainabl…

Sequestra raised $3.51M to transform industrial waste into solid carbon storage.
eu-startups.com/2026/03/austri…

Google partnered with AMP to remove 200,000 tCO₂ via biochar by 2030.
blog.google/company-news/o…

Empacar S.A. announced to scale biochar production in Bolivia in partnership with Puro.earth, Cula, and BioFlux, targeting 70,000 tCO₂/yr and issuing durable carbon credits from 2027.
mondovisione.com/media-and-reso…

Remova Carbon Systems Ltd. and Mangrove Systems partnered to deploy Mangrove’s MRV platform across Remova’s greenfield BECCS facility in Central Alberta.
mangrovesystems.com/press/remova-s…

CURA and Captura partnered to advance bipolar membrane tech for low-carbon cement production.
curaclimate.com/cura-and-captu…

Terradot's Project Carcará has generated its first CDR credits, certified by Isometric, to be delivered to Frontier buyers and Rubicon Carbon.
linkedin.com/feed/update/ac…

Grassroots Carbon launched GroundOwl soil carbon mapping tech with EarthOptics.
grassrootscarbon.com/news/grassroot…

BNP Paribas Alts invested in Rainforest Builder UK for West African forest restoration.
esgnews.com/bnp-paribas-as…

Verde Resources and Biochar Solutions LLC signed US biochar asphalt deal, securing 38,500 t feedstock and generating verified CDR credits.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Holcim UK and Canary Wharf Group achieved net zero concrete with a projected -14 kgCO₂e/m³ footprint.
esgnews.com/holcim-uk-deli…

A group of startups (Carbon Infuse, Carbon Negative Solutions, Carbon to Stone, Low Carbon Materials, Neocrete) form CO₂ mineralisation coalition.
gasworld.com/story/new-grou…

Climeworks & SMI launched CDR Pathfinder to bring together global CEOs to scale durable CDR.
linkedin.com/posts/climewor…

Sumitomo signed MOU with Cemvita on biomethane & bio-oil.
biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/sumito…

Isometric updated its Biochar Production and Storage Protocol; public consultation open until 16 April.
isometric.com/writing-articl…

Carbon Business Council launched Direct Storage of Biomass Coalition.
carbonbusinesscouncil.org/news/dsbcoalit…

CEEZER selected six NbS project developers for Carbon Coalition cohort 4.
ceezer.earth/insights/ceeze…

Absolute Climate released ACS v2.1 for net-zero climate project assessment.
absoluteclimate.com/blog-posts/an-…

ClimeFi opened Beyond 2030 RFP for 100k–500k t durable CDR; submissions close 08 April.
climefi.com/blog-posts/cli…

CaptainDrawdown published first global CDR Researcher Census (122k researchers in 186 countries).
captaindrawdown.com/posts/cdr-rese…

AtlantiCO₂’s ProtoChar01 biochar facility has completed a Preliminary Assessment under the Puro Biochar Methodology 2025.
linkedin.com/posts/atlantic…

Swedish Energy Agency opened 15M SEK funding for negative emissions R&D; deadline 31 Aug 2026.
energimyndigheten.se/utlysningar/st…

Sweden announced to back negative emissions projects and research in two new calls.
energimyndigheten.se/utlysningar/ne…

Carbon Management journal calls for CDR papers; deadline 13 Nov 2026.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_collec…

Sweden could store up to 5MtCO₂/yr, according to the Geological Survey of Sweden.
resource.sgu.se/dokument/publi…

Sabin Center published primer on international law for marine CDR.
scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climate_…

UK Jet Zero Taskforce Report 2025 summarized aviation decarbonization progress.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b83ddd…

Clean Air Task Force (CATF) evaluated existing biomass CDR protocols in a new report.
catf.us/resource/stren…

CRIA & CEEW released India CDR policy brief.
…e-4705-981d-55371e5218fc.usrfiles.com/ugd/098df0_5db…

Beaver-engineered wetlands can store ~10× more carbon than areas without beavers.
nature.com/articles/s4324…

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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A State of All Its Residents Versus a Jewish State

This seems to have become a political issue for some in the State of Israel. Should the Israeli state be a Jewish state or a state of all its residents, and why cannot it be both?
1)

Consider the following.

Russia. Russian ethnics are barely a bit more than half the population of Russia.

France. 13% of the French population are Muslims, people who come from a North African society.
2)

Belgium, the UK, Netherlands, and others now have substantial foreign, non-Christian populations.

All these countries have business closed on Sunday and Christian holidays. Many of them have religion (Christian religion) taught in public state schools.
3)

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Misdirected Jewish Nostalgia or something else.

Or maybe it is an intentional effort to forget the facts and embellish what seems to give a sense of safety that realistically was never there.
1)

Article after article has appeared in recent years, about the loss of Jewish life in Europe that existed before the Holocaust, regretting that loss, embellishing what really was. Story after story by people who talk about how their families were all so wealthy and
2)

did great things, and how it all stopped because of the Nazis and the war. Forgotten is the masses of Jews who lived in abject poverty in most of Europe’s cities and in rural areas as well, the discrimination, the limits on what schools to attend, what jobs one could do,
3)

The important thing to understand about (rapid) Soviet industrialization and economic growth 1928-40 was that it was driven by sectoral reallocation from agriculture to industry, not rising productivity within these groups (agriculture in particular badly suffered).

Also the Tsarist industrial economy was bigger than that of France and close in productivity to the UK, it was just stapled to a continental empire of peasants.